"The "7 Days" investigation reveals that at midnight on October 7, the IDF instructs all its fighting units in practice to use the "Hannibal Procedure", although without clearly mentioning this explicit name. The instruction is to stop "at all costs" any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, using language very similar to the original "Hannibal Procedure", despite repeated assurances by the security establishment that the procedure has been cancelled.
The actual meaning of the order is that the main goal is to stop the retreat of the Nuh'ba activists. And if they took hostages with them - then even if this means risking or harming the lives of civilians in the area, including the abductees themselves.
According to some testimonies, the Air Force acted at those hours according to a directive to prevent arrival from Gaza to Israel, and return from Israel to Gaza. It is estimated that about a thousand terrorists and infiltrators were killed in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. It is not clear at this point how many of the abductees were killed due to the activation of this order on October 7. In the week after Black Shabbat, soldiers of elite units, at the initiative of the Southern Command, checked about 70 vehicles that remained in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed."
| 15:49 (2 uur geleden) | ||
| |||
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten